by David | Jul 31, 2023 | Media 2023, P2 Project, P2f
P2f Infectious diseases update Dairy UP’s Infectious Diseases project has made significant progress recently. As at July 2023, more than 1800 swabs have been collected from about 550 cows and calves on 26 farms. Analysis of samples is underway, while sampling from...
by David | Mar 31, 2023 | Media 2023, P2 Project
PhD opportunity Barbara Brito Rodriguez and her team at NSW DPI (EMAI) are advertising for PhD positions for the DairyUP Infectious diseases project (P2f). The project involves a genomic microbial surveillance of NSW dairy calves. The candidate will be enrolled...
by David | Mar 31, 2023 | Media 2023, P2f
Calf bugs In recent months, Barbara Brito Rodriguez and her team have been busy visiting 20 dairy farms to collect samples from sick and health calves as part of Dairy UP’s P2f project – Infectious diseases. The samples will be analysed to build a genome library of...
by David | Feb 28, 2023 | Media 2023, P2f
ARC funding for P2f Congratulations to Dr Barbara Brito Rodriguez and the Dairy UP team working on infectious diseases in dairy calves (project P2f) who have received additional $434k funding from the Australian Research Council’s Linkage scheme! This funding will be...
by David | Mar 9, 2022 | Media 2022, P2f
Back to P2 projects P2f: Infectious Diseases – New tools for diagnosing causes of scours and respiratory diseases in dairy calves. You can help if you are interested in this project or think you may want to be involved at some stage, please contact anyone from...
by David | Nov 24, 2021 | Media 2021, P2a
Predicting and preventing disease to keep older cows milking Figure 1. Shows that low and very high producing cows are at reduced probability of pregnancy in a lactation. The figure also shows that odds of getting pregnant during a lactation reduce with increased...
